Resins in dentistry
The dental resins are gaining ground in modern dentistry. Restorations is the denture which can be used in damaged or decayed teeth. To this resin is used. This material is worked at every tooth color which allows to achieve a pleasant restoration, cosmetic and effective.
The dental resins are used as an aesthetic alternative instead of using amalgam flows. It also works with resins to fix cracks and fissures in teeth. Nowadays, dental resins are imposing increasingly amalgam restorations.
The dental resins have greater aesthetic properties, have greater resistance to wear and provide a low toxic potential compared with amalgam. This causes them to be preferred for patients, but not so much for dentists since this material is more sensitive and more complicated to handle.
These are the advantages of using dental resins:
Improve aesthetics as barely noticeable to prepare the color of the tooth (the resins have a wide array of colors)
They are ideal for front teeth restorations
No mercury as in the case of amalgams
Help improve the appearance of stained teeth or fractured
Does not require a cavity in the tooth to be used
While his disadvantage s are these:
They are more expensive than amalgam restorations
Over time and depending on how care for the teeth, tooth color may vary slightly.
The dental resins are divided into:
Microfilled resins : Used in the anterior teeth. Are aesthetic and more polished, but less resistant
Macrorelleno resins : These are used for back teeth. Do not lose aesthetics are less polished and more resilient.
Hybrid resins : Used for all teeth and both his aesthetics and resistance are intermediate.
Another way to classify the resin is divided into the acrylic resin (the most common today), light cured and self cured resins. Today, innovation in resins for and there are increasing rates. The dentist must be recycled and expand their knowledge in this field that changes and advances by leaps and bounds. XXI century dentistry continues to advance for the good of the patient and the practitioner.